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State Institution Passes Out of .... Existence. IIS WORK ?y talk wttlFt&e^rfesidem < ^ Without being obliged to wait their turns. with senators, representatives and ite citizens of the land, who new arrangement are giren room of their own. < : v ; "Raft'e cabinet forms what might be called family. Most of the members art law-; the first rank, and It Is an open secret were selected because of their high There are no longer books on nature and en general history subjects fn the office li-L try of the White House. New book shelves re been put in and on them are hundreds of brownish-red covered volumes which beto- the fas* bock. It is ooiu that. Cauiuei metiC- ES these days take on the semblance of a con- of lawyers. As an example of this it !)• said that one day the president In talking one newspaper correspondents said that no tter what subject was broached in the cabinet room at that time the thoughts of everyone went from the suggested subject to the matter of the mtrengthecimg of the anti-trust laws. r What the president said at that time Is prao- [Ically trae of most of the present sessions of 2* cabinet, for it is known that while Mr. Yaft mxious to carry out the Roosevelt policies, he its to buttress them with the law so that no Itltuttonal flaws can be found in them by of which afterthftb^ftt intentions on the ' .the legislators, the gullM might find a ifscape. be supposed for an instant that be- tr. Taft's cabinet members are no avocations in life to turn from their vocations. Take the cabinet for instance. The secretary of state is life, and Is no less ao- than was President „ Is tr*e that Mr. Knox does •r the pursuit of glue nor for the study [oral history. "secretary of state, when he is not discuss­ ing BiAtters with the president, or is not engaged In^staraightenlrig out Internatlopal tangfes, its eith ^ir playing golf or driving a pair of fast, spirited •see. There are few more ardent tenors ot "the toble horse" than Secretary Knox. He rides oc- sionaily and he. Is not averse to taking a five- red gate tf his mount is a Jumper, and If the te happens In his way. The secretary's chief! fight is driving. On his Pennsylvania farm Valley Forge, the scene of the awful winter was passed by the continental army tinder Washington, Mr. Knox has many horses ^oved pedigree, and many <Jaiy ^n<ma,i* v >ted forbears. •' ; * ' "• ' MacVeagh, <he secretary qf Om tress the second ranking officer In Mr f't's cabipet. Is a merchant, although in early rs he studied law. Mr. MacVeagh is not given jrticularly\ to the strenuous life as tt is viewed jnerally. He is much of a walker and has a nature which leads him afield on many a le. but for games, and for shooting, the seo> pares llttie , near Dublin, New Hampshire, the treasury has a country home, and there on the rocky JACOB ^SECRETARY Of WAR soil he brings his best ¥ efforts to bear to cul­ tivate a garden. The secretary has read the story written by Mrs. Theodore Thomas, the widow of the great orchestra leader, a story which told how she made a success- " ful 'garden on the rock-bound hills of the north. Mr. MacVeagh has profited by the reading and while his garden per­ haps is not equal to that planned and cultivated by Mrs, Thomas, it contains many of the flowers of the kind. that make pleasant what people are given to call old fashioned gardens., 5 Mr. Taft consults his treasury chief about eedta- oales in government. It was Mr. MacVeagh who was asked as soon as Mr. Taft took office, to pro- tide ways and means to save money in the differ­ ent departments. The merchant cabinet member had the advantage of a long business training, and it did not take him long to discover that it was possible to save many thousands of dollars by putting business methods la effect In the dif­ ferent bureaus of government. It was found for Instance, that a good many bureaus of the depart­ ments were in the habit of purchasing their sup­ plies independently. The result of this was that spine of them were paying much more money for some articles than was being paid by others. Jteform in purchase methods has come and It ,bAs come also In many other lines, the net re­ sult; being that Uncle Sam's pocketbook Is being saved a good many thousands of dollars yearly. Jacob M. Dickinson, the secretary of war In Mr. Tgift's cabinet, is a southern man and a Demo­ crat. It may seem a little curious at first thought, but It is a fact that the army officers in the main, are glad that a southerner is the chief of the war, department. Despite the attitude of some Demo­ cratic southern members of congress on* army questions generally, the southerners feel kindly toward the officers and men of the service. There If something in the military life that appeals to them, and while the official southern Democrats generally are outspoken against what they call the danger of a great standing army, the military establishment as It is has their sympathy always, and their support frequently. The secretary of war comes from that section Of the country Where everybody lores horses, and he Is no exception to the rule. He Is a golf play­ er also, and this fact perhaps makes him appeal to Mr. Taft's sympathies just as much as does the , fact that the secretary is a great lawyer. Secre­ tary Dickinson Is not serving in Washington in an official capacity for the first time. Years ago be was the assistant attorney general during the last '24 months of the Cleveland administration, and he was counsel for the government afterward fn the matter of the settlement of the Alaskan boundary dispute. . When the president a particularly knotty problem in legislation op hand and heeds to study It from a legal standpoint, he goes over tt himself first, just as a judge on the bench does with sub­ mitted evidence, forms his own opinion, and then catls in the "supreme court" of his cabinet which Is composed of the great lawyers, Knox. Dickin­ son, Wickersham, Nage! and Ballinger. It Is pos­ sible that Mr. Taft depends just as much upon the legal opinion of his secretary of war as he does upon that of bis attorney general. At any rate the war secretary is accounted by Mr. Taft cabinet position was called' by the press of the country "the great un­ known." Mr. Wickersham is no 4>i longer unknown. His position as ^the attorney for the United States '.,y in all Its civil and criminal pro- Ill ceedlngs keeps him constantly In v#. the light. > U The attorney general looks like T a student. Lawyers say of him that fco has one Of the keenest and most analytical minds known to the profession. Mr. Wickersham cares very little for the outdoor life and perhaps he Is a man who by temperament would not have ap­ pealed In the least to a president like Theodore Roosevelt, but the attorney general has diversions which occupy his leisure hours, and they are di versions, of which, unquestionably the countrj will approve. He is interested in the welfare of at least a doten charitable organizations and one of bis beliefs Is that: "He gives twice who gives quickly." Mr. Wickersham is Immensely interested in the welfare of the blind. He is a director of a great New York institution which cares for and edu­ cates children who have lost their sight. Frank H. Hitchcock, who is Mr. Taft's postmas­ ter general, is a bachelor, devoted to the outdoor 'ilffe; a lover of birds and beasts and a student of nearly every branch of natural history. Not only Is the postmaster general a student of nature, but be has done an immense amount of work along sci­ entific '• iu€i. Three years ago last summer the writer of this article went to Oyster Bay, the home of President Roosevelt. Mr. Hitchcock was there also, and sev­ eral hours were spent In his company In the grounds outlying the former president's home. There Is a deep wood Just beyond the Roosevelt lawn and garden, and from the wood on that sum­ mer day there came constantly, songs of birds, many different species singing one after the oth­ er. Many of the notes that were heard were those of different members of the little warbler family, birds whose notes are BO similar that It Is impos­ sible for any except the most sensitive ear to differ­ entiate between them. Mr. Hitchcock identified one bird after another simply by hearing its song. Once on a time the postmaster general classified 10,000 birds for a museum of natural history with which he was connected. One of the ties between the present postmaster general and former President Roosevelt was their common .love of nature. Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger has few diversions except that ot golf. Mr. Ballin­ ger was born in Iowa 50 years ago, and nearly all bit life bas been spent in some-part of the west. When James Wilson, secretary ot agriculture, was asked once what his diversion was he an­ swered, "farming." This idea of diversion Is one that Is held largely by men who combine the love of nature with agricultural lnstinet. One of Mr. Wilson's diversions Is story telling. Tbey say In Washington that it his homely sayings could be gathered and put Into a book, the reader would get a fund of humor and wisdom combined. When Charles Nagel, Mr. Taft's secretary of OOmmerce and labor, is not engaged in the work ot bis department he is thinking over matters of edu­ cation and art. Mr. Nagel is to some extent a de­ votee of the outdoor life, but he Is prone to giving much of his time to the study of matters pertain-' ing to the schools. Taking Mr. Taft's cabinet all in all it is juat about as human a body of men as can be gathered togeth­ er. There is an impression prevalent that the mem­ bers of this Washington official family are rather of what Walter Scott calls, "the-dry-as-dust" mate­ rial, but there has been a misunderstanding appar­ ently concerning the nature of these advisers of the president. They know their law and they know their agriculture and their finance, but while they know how to study they also know how to play, but not one of them knows how to play one whit bet­ ter than does their chief, who is about as Jolly a man personally as the United States has yet prd» duced. •< Old Management Succeeded by Com­ mission--Trustees Are Also Re­ tired--Ends 40 Years of Actitr.f; • Ity and Accomplishment. ' Springfield.--After 40 years of con­ tinuous activity, the Illinois state board of charities has passed out of existence. With its passing also went the 17 boards of trustees of state char­ itable Institutions, the oldest of which -the-board of trustees of the Illinois School for the Deaf at Jacksonville-- has been in existence since 1839. This institution was the first state charita­ ble institution created in Illinois. With the trustees the; institution treas­ urers and secretaries also retired. Automatically there sprang into le­ gal authority, to replace tbe state board of charities and the local board of trustees, the board of administra­ tion, the charities commission and boards of visitors for each of the 17 state charitable institutions. The board of administration is the executive board supplanting in all as­ pects Jhe local boards of trustees and the state board of charities, in all administrative or quasi-administra­ tive powers of its service. The chari­ ties commission succeeds to the visi- torial, inspections^ critical and recom­ mendatory duties of tbe state board of charities. The local boards of visi­ tors are purely visitorial and recom­ mendatory boards, serving, one board for each state charitable institution, as dependencies of the central chari­ ties commission. The change, thus briefly outlined, Is wrought by the new charities ad­ ministration act pased by the Forty- sixth general assembly. The state board of charities was made up of Dr. Frank Billings, Chi­ cago, president; Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Chicago; Dr. John T. McAnally, Car- bondale; Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Rock- ford, and Mrs. Clara P. Bourland, Pe­ oria. William C. Graves, executive secretary, and all other employes of tbe board retired with It, but all have entered the civil ^service competition for positions with the new charities 'commission. •JJbe boards of trustees numbered 17 and comprised a total of 55 members. The creation of the state board of charities, 40 years ago, was the out­ growth, partly, of an Investigation or­ dered in 1867 by both houses of the legislature into the financial and other management of the state institutions, and partly of a sporadic movement fin America for a centralized form of su­ pervision over public Institutions. At that time, and previously thereto, the system of administration and super­ vision had been by local boards and trustees. The legislative investigation centered chiefly around the manage­ ment of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, now known as the Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jackson­ ville It was a lurid and picturesque Investigation. The yellowing pages in the newspaper files of that date con­ tain thousands upon thousands of words about this inquiry and its sen­ sational aspects. The report of the Investigating committee was advene to the system then In vogue. The first liiSuoiH state board of charities was appointed on April 27, 1869. It. organized at once for busi­ ness. In Its first biennial report it stated its conception of the object of t$ie board as follows: 'In a word, they (the board mem­ bers) have two objects to accomplish by their action--namely, to insure to the dependent and suffering a just measure of relief and to guard the public at large from extravagant de­ mands in the name of charity. Their funcjtion is to give simplicity, unity and increased efficiency to the sys­ tem of state aid; to secure the largest results at the least relative cost; to diminish, as far as It is in the power of the government to diminish, the sum of suffering and of crime within the limits of the state." In all 50 new state positions passed under the control of the' state civil service commission. These include 17 chief clerks of charitable Institu­ tions, 16 institution stenographers, the office force of the state board of ad­ ministration, the new charities com­ mission and the department for the visitation of children. The 50 positions carry a payroll ag­ gregating $52,000 a year. The highest salary Is that of the executive secre­ tary of the new commission of chari­ ties. which pays $3,600 a year. All these positions already are filled except those in the office of the com­ mission. Departments already exist­ ing will continue with the present of­ fice forces. ------- ffW'- •" % * Coal Faiytine ,l» Intensified.^ ,4. it .. The soft coal famine In nols has reached its most acute stage and the situation has become alarm­ ing. Bloomington coal dealers were deluged with telephone calls from contiguous towns asking for cars of fuel, the outside dealers declaring that tnelr supply had become entirely exhausted. In numerous Instances dealers ad­ vanced prices following the example of Bloomington dealers and disposing of their final stock at an advance of 60 cents to one dollar per ton. Nature Restore* Fertility. ue opportunity to study ha- essee in restoring tbe vege- land swept clean by a #r was afforded after the eruption, of the volcano of Krakatoa la qrgttuiaraa were de- " w of plants nisei ves on • in the different , • '• 3 - ' : /v %«* * * * from those on the eoast* tenia espfe- citflly preponderating. In 1897 ftfrther progress had been made and in 1906 the forest trees had been advanced so faf as to make it evident that within a short -time the island will again be densely forested. It is believed that the first plants'to establish themselves on the blasted soil--such as ferns, al­ ga#, mosses, compositau and grasses --were* borne thither by winds, and that ocean currents were probably the agents in the importation of seeds Vl.lh.tts. ^ « Royal Woman's Many of the famous w] tory loved children, the of children's love most One was Queen Adelaidj little ones died in ii mourned her loss tbe and sought solace In nesa to the children came her custom Christmas tree as a gift to the boy. and girls wherever the court spent the festive "season. Tbe tree always stood under Chinese dragons suspend­ ed from the ceiling. The children walked in two by two, and each one was kissed in turn by the queen. Adelaide also distributed .all of the Christ To Hold Risk Hearing. Tbe Illinois fire insurance commis­ sion, appointed by Gov. Deneen to in­ vestigate and report to the next legis­ lature on the advisability of adapt­ ing any form of state regulation of rates, decided to begin an important hearing at the teotel La Salle in Chi­ cago on January 4. Secretary Gill Lt out notices to about thirty in- and business men, lnvit- is witnesses and in­ fers, Youn® Heads Teachers. For the first time in the history ot the Illinois Teachers' association, a woman was elected its president. The honor was conferreed upon *Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of the Chicago public schools. Demon rum played a prominent part in the closing session of tbi associa­ tion. Extracts from a saloon publica­ tion and charges that the liquor inter­ ests were favorable to the agitation over temperance ,physiology caused a heated debate on the liquor question, wbich lasted *for an hour. At the suggestion of Mrs. Young, the new president, a committee will be named to Investigate tbe subject of temperance. The following officers were elected: President; Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago; first vice-president, Gerard T. Smith, Peoria; second vice-presi­ dent, Mrs. Anna L. Barbre, Taylor- ville; third vice-president, G. P. Ran- dle, Mattoon; secretary, Caroline Grole, Macomb; treasurer, Charles Hertel, Belleville; member executive committee, Edward C. Rosseterm, Chi­ cago, to succeed Frank D. Thompson of Springfield; state director of the National Educational association, W. R. I^itfield, Chicago; directors. Charles W. Watts, Urbana; " M. G. Clark, Streator; H. H. Brown, Rock Island; Myrtle Renwlck, Galena; Esther White, Highland Park-IE- , • Y" \ AND SHE'S NOT THE •m "What would you <Jc If yqjj your huBband flirting?" "Why, my dear, that's ji I did eatch him!" Mayors Arrange Progi If Illinois municipal officials do not know more about government six months hence it will not be the fault of the Illinois Mayers' association. Several city executives were guests of Mayor Joseph ~E. Paden of Evanston at the Union League club in Chicago at luncheon, apd a program for the next convention, which will be beld at Cairo, May 18 and 19, 1910, was laid out. The chief topics for the contention were selected as follows: ' Tbe city health department and sanitation. The building and care of streets with especial attention In the preser­ vation ot streets from damage by au­ tomobile traffic. v •? j. The financial affairs axul accounting of cities. , : The regulation of public utilities cor­ porations and their charges. "The subjects have been selected for their paramount Interest, and with the idea of avoiding anything which looks like polltioal discussion," said Mayor Paden, who is president of the association. Illinois Revenue Tax Increases. •„ Collections made in 1909 by the in­ ternal revenue department of the First district of Illinois amounted to $8,149,614.14,. according to its annual report. In 1908 $7,760,828.25 was col­ lected. More was derived from beer than from.all the other products taxed by the government, the amount obtained for beer stamps reaching $4,815,837. This was upon 4,815,337 barrels. The report shows that 220,853,956 cigars and 18,260,405% pounds of to­ bacco were taxed to the figure of $1,095,624.33. Snuff brought ip revenue on 4,275,• 314 pounds, while "a tax of $430,075.01 was placed upon 72,280,211 pounds of oleomargarine. The number of ciga­ rettes taxed was 4,995,062. John C. Ames, collector of customs for the port of Chicago, shows a blfe Increase in the amount of money col­ lected on imported merchandise. Dur­ ing tbe year $10,142,634.53 was re­ ceived, as compared to $8,502,492.29 in 1908. Rhodus Cats to United States Court. Chief Justice Farmer of the Illinois supreme court has gruaieu a writ cf error to the United Stated supreme court in the case of Thomas, Burch F. and Edward T. Rhodus of Chicago, in which the supreme court of Illinois had affirmed the judgment of the cir­ cuit court of Cook county, Judge Mack presiding, in sentencing the Rhodus brothers to six months In the Cook county jail for failure to turn over to Receiver John C. Fetzer the books of the Mercantile Securities Company, In which they were interested. The Rhodus brothers contend that the or­ der* of Judge Mack and the Illinois supreme court is'in violation of the constitution of the supreme court, as, by turning the books over, they would be giving evidence whicb will be used to incriminate them in a criminal pro­ ceeding. More Dismissals Imminent. „ . Two more asylum officials WlU lose their positions as a result of tbe In­ vestigation conducted by tbe state civil service commission at 4he gen­ eral hospital for the insane at Barton- ville, near Peoria, following the death of John McNulty, a patient at the In­ stitution. The report of the commis­ sion recommends the immediate dis­ charge ot First Assistant Physician George W. Mitchell and Second As­ sistant J. G. Osterbeck, and this sug­ gestion will be acted upon by Super­ intendent George A. Zeller of the In­ stitution. Negligence In the perform­ ance of duty was the charge against the physicians. Hospital Report Submitted. v- The trustees of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Watertown made their final reports as officials of the institution and arranged the detail? for turning the hospital over to the state board of administration. The institution at Watertown was founded and brought to its present state of importance by Dr. W. E. Tay­ lor, who-has been its superintendent for 13 years. His final report showed that there,are 1,420 persons being cared for. The general health and conditions are excellent. Qaiva Gets Hard Road. Through the assistances at th* Illi­ nois state highway commission, Galva's city and township authorities have just completed a mile and a half of fine macadam road, leading from tho Rock Island station south to the southern boundary of the cemetery, which lies in Knox county.. The work required three months, cost about $6,000, and tbQ material consisted of 4.044 tons of crushed ro<k and Spring Valley gravg^ WJ|fcjfl£the cUy tl Up CQunJ BOY TORTURED BY "When my boy was six y<= suffered terribly with eel could neither sit still nor He bed, for the itching was dread would Irritate spots by s<! with his nails and that on] them worse. A doctor trea and we tried almost everything," the eczema seemed to spread, started in a small place on th? loii extremities and spread for two yel until It very nearly covered the b{ part of his leg to the knee. "Finally I got Cuticura Soap, C^ cura Ointment and Cuticura Pills gave them according to directions, used them In the morning and tl evening, before I put my boy to bl I used them again and the lmproi ment even in those few hours was s) prising, the inflammation seemed be so much less. I used two boxerrJ Cuticura Ointment, the same of the Pills and the Soap and my boy wasl cured. My son is now in bis sev-T enteenth year and be bas never had] a return of the "ecfeema. "I took care of a friend's child that had eczema on its face and limbs ai I used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment! They acted on the child just as thej did on my son and it bas never turned. I would recommend tho Cut| cura Remedies to anyone. Mrs. A. 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